How many summers, how many winters: a heartfelt reunion of brothers-in-arms

Embracing infants from Nicolas Poussin's painting "The Nurture of Bacchus" in the Louvre collection.

The canvas is currently undergoing restoration, which is a good moment to recall the dispute over its attribution: the version held by the National Gallery in London is sometimes named as the authentic Poussin.

That conclusion, however, rests on the opinion of Sir Anthony Blunt, a leading authority on Poussin, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and, as it emerged in the later years of his life, a Soviet spy. So there is no particular obligation to believe him.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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How many summers, how many winters: a heartfelt reunion of brothers-in-arms

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s